Cha^s

Mar 6 A /60

 

Yale College

New Haven  Mar. 2^nd '60.

 

Dear Father

                        Your letter, dated Feb. 27^th was duly received. I thank you for the Courier which also arrived safely. If I did not ask expressly for papers I should never get one, for in this miserable Democratic Post Office, they have a separate box for papers, and never overhaul them unnecessarilly, so please tell me when you have sent one. By the way, where are the Independents? I should like to see them very much. You have of course heard of the sudden death of Prof. Goodrich. It took the whole college by surprise for although / he was so old, he seemed hearty & well. He was not regarded as at all dangerously ill until the morning of the day he died. You know more of him than I do—how earnest he was in religion—never cold, always active—how near his heart the cause of Christ in this college lay: and so you can readily see how great a loss we have sustained, and how difficult it will be to make it good. We only hope that the sudden and unexpected stop which is put to his usefulness and especially in his lectures to young men, may do more good even than his labors / produced, by leading us to cherish up & remember his advice & warning, as well as by teaching us that all men must die and that the time of death is uncertain. His funeral was very largely attended from the center [?]. The Pres. is expected to preach the funeral sermon Sunday. Ripley has just taken the first prize in his division for composition. His subject was—"The Sublimity of high moral action"! I have sometimes wondered how Willis could write such affecting sacred poetry—but perhaps it is not strange after all—(hope you see the point.) Your humble serv't is thoroughly sick of boarding himself. (I am rather sleepy—and then "this pen")—I haven't been well for a few days, and I lay it to irregularity / of diet, to which one naturally falls when he can eat when he pleases. I guess I shall go back to Wright's tomorrow. It costs me almost as much to board my self and it is not half as convenient or pleasant. I am down on it now strong—But I am not sorry I tried it, for now I know. It was on the same principle that I went to the Burial of Euclid last term—I didn't go again, and I trust I shall never board my self again. I can't cook nearly as well as Winnie. I have boarded my self about five weeks and it has cost me twelve dollars—2.25 per week. It don't pay so you won't have to send on very much money. I hope you have not troubled yourself to get it. With love to all, hoping to hear from you soon. I am your aff Son

Charles J. Arms

 

Enclosed please find Arms as he appeared as Fresh.

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